I think the idea is that if you can produce cleaner, physically-correct ocean imagery, then the result of that is more amenable to consumption by machine learni

I think the idea is that if you can produce cleaner, physically-correct ocean imagery, then the result of that is more amenable to consumption by machine learning image processing tools. It's sort of like how having a big image corpus enabled AI. There's no AI in the images themselves, but it gives you something to throw AI at.